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> For some reason my gut says it won't be called Windows 11. I have a feeling it will be called something confusing or unappealing. Love MS products but they al
by pxc 5y ago
> For some reason my gut says it won't be called Windows 11. I have a feeling it will be called something confusing or unappealing. Love MS products but they always fell short with branding.
This strikes me as so odd, both because to me Microsoft products don't have a singular vibe that I could rule on, and because Windows, to me, is obviously the worst Microsoft product by a mile. Like, of things I've used recently:
• Windows Terminal is outstanding, easily the best terminal emulator available on the platform
• PowerShell is top-notch as a shell language, and has rightly revolutionized the design of shell languages to follow
• winget is kinda a sad story and can probably never really be what it ought to because of the way most software is distributed on Windows anyway
• WSL1 is crazy ambitious and cool, absolutely love it
• WSL2 is very nice to have but much less interesting as a project than WSL1
• Windows itself is horrifying— after having been away from Windows since Windows 7, just the _installer_ for Windows 10 left me shocked and repulsed
Is there a particular unifying theme or aspect of Microsoft products that draws you to them? Or do you just kinda happen to like a lot of them for very different sorts of reasons?
- salamandersauce 5y agoIt will probably be called 11. They have been leaving hints all over the place that it will be. The event starts at 11 a.m. which is not when they usually do, the invite showed an animation where the light going through the window ignored the cross bar making an 11, they released an 11 minute video of slowed down Windows start up sounds on YouTube. It'll either be called 11 or they are trolling hard.